Experts Can Testify On Cancer Link In J&J Talc Suits

By Emily Field

A special master has said experts for the tens of thousands of women whose suits in New Jersey federal court allege that Johnson & Johnson talc products caused their ovarian cancer can testify at trial about the causal connection between their disease and use of the products.

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NJ Justices Wrestle With Cases Complicated By ICE Custody

By Carla Baranauckas

The New Jersey Supreme Court wondered Wednesday how to manage case flow when detained or deported defendants are prevented by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from attending their proceedings, lamenting the difficult choice of options including letting matters languish, conducting criminal trials virtually or issuing bench warrants that could complicate immigration cases.

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SEC Accuses Unregistered NJ Adviser Of $1.6M Client Fraud

By Sydney Price

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has accused a New Jersey-based investment adviser of losing $1.6 million on behalf of clients who were allegedly duped into believing he was a licensed securities trader with years of experience in the industry.

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Ex-TD Bank Worker Cops To Taking Money Laundering Bribes

By Katryna Perera

A former New Jersey-based TD Bank NA employee pled guilty on Wednesday to accepting bribes and leveraging his position to facilitate the movement of over $26 million to Colombia through TD Bank accounts.

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NJ Firm Must Face Full SEC Suit Over Investment Allocations

By Katryna Perera

A New Jersey federal judge allowed all claims of a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission suit against a Garden State financial firm and its founder to proceed, finding Wednesday the regulator has adequately pleaded scheme liability, knowledge of wrongdoing and other counts.

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Fintech Co. Says Investor Suit 'Regurgitates' SEC Claims

By Emilie Ruscoe

A fintech company has sought to shed a proposed investor class action alleging its former CEO manipulated trading prices for its shares, arguing that the suit fails because it parrots separate U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission allegations.

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Bristol-Myers' Worker Arbitration Push Scrutinized On Appeal

By Rachel Riley

A Washington Court of Appeals panel expressed reluctance to award Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.'s bid to send a former worker's age discrimination case to arbitration Wednesday, while also casting some doubt on the ex-employee's stance that the arbitration pact she signed was invalid.

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3rd Circ. Ends Minor League Owner's Suit Over MLB Ties

By Ganesh Setty

The Third Circuit on Wednesday upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit from the owner of the Oregon-based Salem-Keizer Volcanoes alleging a minor league baseball official cut the team out of a relationship with Major League Baseball, finding the official had no fiduciary duty to it.

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3rd Circ. Questions Mushroom Farmer's Tax Bill Accounting

By Matthew Santoni

A Third Circuit panel appeared skeptical Wednesday of a woman's bid to reduce her prison term for tax violations connected to her family's mushroom farm, with judges suggesting that different swaths of taxes she failed to pay the government could be grouped together as "relevant conduct" under federal sentencing guidelines.

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FBT Gibbons Expands In NJ With Former Federal Prosecutor

By Jake Maher

FBT Gibbons LLP added a former New Jersey federal prosecutor to its white collar team this week, the white collar group's first hire since the firm's formation at the start of the year.

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How A 1947 Tugboat Ruling May Shape Work Product In AI Era

Rapid advances in generative artificial intelligence test work-product principles first articulated in the U.S. Supreme Court’s nearly 80-year-old Hickman v. Taylor decision, as courts and ethics bodies confront whether disclosure of attorneys’ AI prompts and outputs would reveal their thought processes, say Larry Silver and Sasha Burton at Langsam Stevens.

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Ex-Baker McKenzie Atty Alleges Assault In New DC Lawsuit

By Alison Knezevich

A former Baker McKenzie associate who was sued for defamation over a series of social media posts accusing the firm's Washington, D.C., managing partner of sexual assault has brought her own lawsuit, marking the first time she publicly detailed her allegations in court records.

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Trump Calls For Prosecution Of Jack Smith Post-Hearing

By Courtney Bublé

Shortly after former special counsel Jack Smith gave his first public congressional testimony on the Trump cases, in which he warned the rule of law should not be taken for granted, President Donald Trump said he should be prosecuted.

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Goldstein Prosecutors Unveil Conflicting Cash Source Claims

By Jared Foretek

A former lawyer at SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein's firm said Thursday that Goldstein told coworkers that the more than $960,000 in cash he brought off a flight from Hong Kong — the source of which is integral to the government's case — had come from a client.

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ABA Outlines Limited Atty Duty To Give Info To Former Clients

By Lynn LaRowe

The American Bar Association said attorneys have a limited responsibility to convey information to former clients or successor counsel that was not within the client's file, when doing so is necessary to protect a client's interests and reasonably practicable, according to a new ethics opinion.

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Proposed Subpoena Rule Change Raises Victim Privacy Fears

By Brandon Lowrey

A proposal to loosen restrictions on the use of federal criminal subpoenas would endanger and further traumatize victims of crime, most of whom lack legal representation to fight the invasive demands, victims' rights advocates told a federal rules advisory committee on Thursday.

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Pa. Justices Say Judge's Partisan Posts Warrant Suspension

By Hayley Fowler

Pennsylvania's highest court has adopted a balancing test for restricting a sitting judge's free speech outside the context of an election and, in doing so, affirmed the suspension of a state court judge who it said damaged the court's appearance of impartiality by making political posts on social media.

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Courthouse News Drops Access Suit Against DC Court Clerk

By Emily Sawicki

National litigation news outlet Courthouse News Service has voluntarily and permanently dropped claims against a Washington, D.C., Superior Court clerk and the executive officer of the D.C. courts over filing delays, with both sides agreeing to pay their own costs.

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